The Arts Council has announced its funding decision under the Arts Grant scheme. A total of €12.8m has been awarded to 163 arts organisations and 20 individual artists, from 217 applications.

The scheme is one of the largest run by the Council and supports arts activity and programmes throughout the country. It covers all art forms, from architecture to opera.

In the music, opera and traditional arts categories, €2.2m was awarded. Among the recipients are the new traditional arts resource organisation Trad Ireland/Traid Éireann (€22,350), which recently published a report on the challenges facing the sector; the new arts venue in Conamara, Stiúideo Cuan, which is set to open this November (€40,000), resource organisation Harp Ireland/Cruit Éireann (€100,000), record label Ergodos (€32,000), the Finding A Voice festival of female composers (€32,000), St Patrick’s Festival (€40,000), Kirkos ensemble (€57,000), Lismore Music Festival (€144,327) and New Music Dublin (€260,000). The Journal of Music has received an offer of funding of €75,000. In the young people and children category, the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland has been offered €100,000.

Commenting on the funding, Maureen Kennelly, Director of the Arts Council, said:

The breadth and range of applications is truly inspiring to see. Artists and organisations have suffered disproportionately through the pandemic and it is heartening to see the resilience of the arts sector. It is also encouraging to know that while we support these 20 artists and 163 organisations, they will in turn create thrilling new work and support the public as we recover together. Their work is increasingly representative of the rich diversity of contemporary Ireland. The talent represented in these organisations and individual artists is world class and their ambition and confidence is a source of enormous pride to the Arts Council.

For a full list of Arts Grant recipients, see below. For more, visit www.artscouncil.ie.

Architecture
Architecture On The Edge
€100,000

Artists support
Achill Heinrich Boll Association
€26,150

Cill Rialaig Project Ltd
€85,000

Arts participation
Asylum Productions
€90,000

Byrne, Aisling
€120,000

Callan Workhouse Union
€68,000

Centre For Creative Practices
€70,000

Common Ground
€100,000

Cork Community Artlink Ltd
€60,000

Dance Theatre of Ireland
€70,000

Outlandish Theatre Platform
€98,000

Tallaght Community Arts
€100,000

The Limerick Theatre And Performance Hub
€70,000

The Walls Project
€19,000

Upstate Theatre Project
€95,000

Circus
Circus Factory
€95,958

Circus Gerbola
€34,180

Dublin Circus Project
€94,000

Duffy’s Circus
€46,000

Elaine McCague
€58,280

Emily Aoibheann McDonnell
€25,864

National Circus Festival of Ireland
€78,120

Dance
Company Philip Connaughton
€160,000

Croi Glan Integrated Dance
€72,000

Galway Dance Project
€50,000

Alexandre Iseli
€126,000

Junk Ensemble
€115,000

Luke Murphy
€127,148

Angeliki Smalis
€70,000

The Firkin Crane
€80,000

Festivals and Events
Cairde Festival Ltd
€154,000

Clifden Community Arts Week
€115,000

Clonmel Junction Festival
€140,000

Galway Theatre Festival
€24,800

Light Moves Festival Of Screendance
€41,800

Traders in the Area Supporting the Cultural Quarter Ltd
€38,000

Film
Aemi
€115,655

Literature (English language)
Banshee
€75,000

Bullaun Press
Ireland€22,000

Crannog Magazine
€18,000

Cúirt International Festival of Literature
€115,500

Curlew Editions Ltd
€39,800

Cyphers Magazine
€13,000

Dalkey Book Festival
€40,000

Paula Dias Garcia
€20,000

Doire Press
€70,000

Dublin Book Festival
€80,000

Dublin Review of Books
€25,000

Fallow Media
€13,800

Fighting Words
€50,000

Fish Publishing
€15,000

Cassia Gaden Gilmartin
€11,500

Dani Gill
€16,500

Catherine Hearn
€32,000

Holy Show
€19,000

IBBY Ireland
€6,000

International Literature Festival Dublin
€95,000

Irish Pages
€28,000

Lilliput Press
€105,000

Match In The Dark
€35,000

Museum Of Literature Ireland
€25,000

New Island Books DAC
€97,000

Over the Edge
€9,500

Publishing Ireland
€17,000

Skein Press
€100,000

The Dublin Review
€75,000

The O’Brien Press
€65,000

Tramp Press
€110,000

Wordwell Ltd
€33,000

Ó Bhéal
€7,500

Literature (Irish language)
Comhar Teoranta
€46,800

Dalen (Llyfrau) Cyf
€33,000

Feasta
€13,000

Futa Fata
€40,000

Leabhaircomhar
€27,000

Street Arts
Inishowen Carnival Group
€48,213

Opera
Dumbworld Ltd
€18,900

Lismore Music Festival
€144,327

Music
Aoife Burke
€12,500

Clifden Arts Society
€12,000

Con Brio
€16,000

Cork International Choral Festival
€40,000

Cork Orchestral Society
€40,000

Drogheda International Music Series
€30,000

Dublin Sound Lab
€40,000

Dún Laoghaire Organ Festival
€12,000

Ergodos
€32,000

Finding A Voice
€32,000

Kaleidoscope Night
€39,000

Kirkos
€57,000

Louth Contemporary Music Ltd
€87,000

Luminosa Music
€35,000

Music for Galway
€76,000

Music for Wexford
€21,000

Music in Kilkenny
€30,000

Musici Ireland
€35,000

National String Quartet Foundation
€70,000

New Music Dublin
€260,000

Now And Then Media Ltd
€17,500

Pipeworks Festival
€50,000

Karen Power
€18,500

Quiet Music Ensemble
€42,000

Resurgam
€67,000

Sligo Jazz Project
€62,000

Sundays at Noon / Gallery Music
€26,000

Symphony Club of Waterford
€13,000

The Galway Music Residency
€71,000

The Journal of Music
€75,000

Waterford Music
€13,272

Westport Jazz
€6,090

Ian Wilson
€18,000

Theatre
ANU Productions
€250,000

Broken Talkers
€206,520

Dead Centre Theatre Company
€211,421

Decadent Theatre Company
€132,845

Four Rivers Theatre Company
€125,790

Gare St Lazare Players Ireland
€99,169

HATCH Theatre Company
€123,958

Landmark Productions
€250,000

Livin Dred Theatre Company
€93,738

Tracy Martin
€67,175

THISISPOPBABY
€206,850

The Performance Corporation
€108,135

Verdant Productions Ltd
€40,000

Louise White
€227,104

Nyree Yergainharsian
€214,280

Traditional Arts
Baltimore Fiddle Fair
€50,000

Ceol Connected
€80,000

Comharchumann Forbartha Ghaoth Dobhair
€43,000

Harp Ireland/Cruit Éireann
€100,000

Historical Harp Society of Ireland
€43,000

Ionad Culturtha
€40,000

St Patrick’s Festival
€40,000

Stiúideo Cuan
€40,000

The Séamus Ennis Cultural Centre
€87,000

Trad Ireland/Traid Éireann
€22,350

Ériu
€53,000

Venues
Balor Arts Centre
€50,000

Complex Productions Ltd
€60,000

Courthouse Arts Centre
€58,000

Friars’ Gate Theatre & Arts
€20,000

Nenagh Arts Centre
€30,000

South Tipperary Arts Centre
€52,000

St John’s Arts Centre
€65,000

The Glens Centre
€51,000

The Mill Theatre
€35,000

Tipperary Excel Heritage Company
€20,000

Visual Arts
126 Artist-Run Gallery
€35,200

A4 SOUNDS
€130,000

Artlink Ltd
€121,900

Askeaton Contemporary Arts CLG
€57,500

Conway, Enid
€24,000

Courthouse Studios and Gallery
€20,000

Custom House Studios Ltd
€20,000

Clodagh Emoe
€43,000

Goma Gallery Of Modern Art Waterford
€24,000

Interface
€62,000

Irish Arts Review
€60,000

Lismore Castle Arts
€60,500

MART
€73,000

Mexindex
€5,000

Ormston House
€76,000

Pallas Projects/Studios
€99,990

Paper Visual Art Journal
€49,500

Sample Studios
€43,000

Source
€31,500

The Ballinglen Arts Foundation
€63,000

Tulca
€126,500

Young people, children and the arts
Barnstorm Theatre Company Ltd
€180,000

Branar Dramaiochta Teo
€200,000

Cloughjordan Circus Club
€55,965

The Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland
€100,000

Dublin Youth Theatre
€95,220

Fibin Teo
€90,000

Graffiti Theatre Company Ltd
€213,500

Monkeyshine Theatre
€150,000

Newell, Anna
€201,718

Noonan, Cliodhna
€24,000

Super Paua
€98,574

Superprojects
€80,576

Theatre Lovett
€213,500

Waterford Youth Arts
€90,000

WhistleBlast Quartet
€100,000